Re: [phpesp-dev] GUI design considerations

[Lou S. <lr...@at...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James E. Flemer" <jf...@ac...>
To: <php...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: [phpesp-dev] GUI design considerations


> When doing any GUI design please keep these points in mind.
> I do want phpESP to have a nice "look-and-feel" but at the
> same time I want it to be usable by as many people as
> possible. I use lynx from time to time myself...
Yes.  (lynx)  Hmmm. I'm not going to touch this one.

However, issues of looking forward to WAP/WML enabled phpESP surveys
or portable device output should be considered (again, xslt would be
ideal for
this stuff however, things can get very very messy and complex when
dealing with complex forms and surveys)

I think we need a brainstorming session about these things.

Lou.

> -James
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:16:16 -0500
> From: Matt Campbell <ma...@fr...>
> To: jf...@ac...
> Subject: Great job on phpESP!
>
> Hello,
>
> I work for InHouse Radio Networks, Inc., and we're working on a
product
> called the Freedom Box which gives blind and other disabled people
> access to the Internet through speech synthesis and speech
recognition.
> We're going to run a market survey to find out about our potential
> customers, and I was put in charge of setting it up.  I was going to
> write my own custom PHP scripts to do it, but thought I'd first look
to
> see if a PHP survey package was already available.
>
> I found phpESP (1.2beta3), and decided to check it out.  I've got it
up
> and running, and the president of the company is very pleased with it.
> Great job, and thanks for making this package available for free!
>
> A few suggestions:
>
> 1.  Include alt attributes for all your images, especially the form
> buttons for the tabs on the survey creation/editing pages.  This way
> people using text-only browsers such as Lynx, as well as blind people
> using screen readers, can tell what these images are.
>
> 2.  Use drop-down menus instead of radio buttons whenever possible
> (e.g. on the page for creating or editing a survey question).
> The president of this company that I'm working for is blind himself,
> and he says that drop-down menus are much easier to use with his
screen
> reader than radio buttons are.  Besides, drop-down menus take up less
> space on the page.
>
> 3.  When rendering a survey question with "!other" as the last choice,
> it would be best if phpESP displayed "other" or "Other" without the
> exclamation mark.  Also would it be possible to include an "Other"
> choice and an accompanying text field for questions where the choices
> are presented in a drop-down menu?  That way we don't have to use
radio
> buttons at all.
>
> I've implemented #1 and #2 in our local copy, and will work on #3
soon.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Matt Campbell
> Programmer and System Administrator
> InHouse Radio Networks, Inc.
> http://www.freedombox.cc/
>
>
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